[AT] Polar Ice Caps

[charliehill]

Leave it to a trucker to think of that!  Sometimes I think they are better 
inovators than Farmers.  I might have told this group about building a 
newspaper fire under a log trailer in the middle of the highway when an 
airline froze up and locked the brakes.  I hope I don't have to do that 
again.

Another time I had a brake get hot and catch grease on fire on a rear 
tractor axle.   I was on the side of the road thowing dirt on the fire with 
my hands.  A guy going fishing stopped in the road, got the fire 
extinguisher out of his boat, threw it too me and drove off without even 
giving me a chance to thank him or pay him.  I've tried to pay that one 
forward a few times on his behalf.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herbert Metz" <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Polar Ice Caps


> Right Charlie, just do not get any oil drippings too warm.
> Probably an old truckers solution, but I had not heard of the following
> before.  Couple decades ago, an OTR trucker needed to get on the road 
> after
> the holidays; we had an unusual cold spell (Bloomington, IN area).. He 
> used
> approx two dozen cheap charcoal grill pans and several bags of charcoal
> bricks, got them going good and placed them under his trailer tractor and
> placed one or more tarps over the tractor. Took hours for the heat to 
> fully
> penetrate all of that metal, etc, he cranked up, cleaned up, and was on 
> the
> road.
> Herb
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Date: 1/14/2009 9:06:35 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Polar Ice Caps
>>
>> Heat rises.  It seems to me you could just put the heat lamp, fllod lamp
> or
>> whatever on the floor or the ground with the bulb pointing up under the
>> engine bay.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "CEE VILL" <cvee60 at hotmail.com>
>> To: "new atislist" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:37 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Polar Ice Caps
>>
>>
>>
>> It will make a big improvement, Bob as long as you keep in mind the fire
>> hazard and use good judgment with placement.  As Kevin points out, even a
>> trouble light with a 75 or 100 watt bulb can do the job.  I did that for
>> part of one winter about 10 years ago with an '86 Olds Delta.  It would
>> crank fine, but below around +20 F, just would not fire off and run.  The
>> trouble light under the hood did the trick.  I was driving that one
> through
>> the winter to finish it off.  My wife had hit a deer with it and rumpled
> the
>> front pretty bad.  After we replaced the car, I bought  body parts from
> the
>> South and repaired it, so it was an "extra vehicle".  Driving one mile
> each
>> way to work didn't require a great car, but it did have to start when
>> needed.
>>
>> Charlie in WNY
>>
>> P.S.  Kevin,  I think the '56 Olds was quite a machine.  The nearest I
> came
>> to that was a '56 Pontiac Star Chief that served me well for two or three
>> years in the 1960's.  At that time work was 20 miles away so I was on
> pretty
>> good terms with the gas station operator.  Now there is a memory.  The
> guy
>> used to faithfully come out and pump your gasoline purchase and did not
> act
>> like he was diong you a favor to interrupt his newspaper reading to take
>> your money..
>>
>>
>>
>> > From: nysports at frontiernet.net
>> > To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:09:24 -0500
>> > Subject: Re: [AT] Polar Ice Caps
>> >
>> > Thanks, Charlie. I may just do that tomorrow night. Battery in my Baja
>> > still
>> > seems to have plenty of cranking power, but it's now approaching five
>> > years
>> > old. And when they do go, it's usually some morning when it's -20 or
>> > colder.
>> >
>> > Bob
>> >
>>
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